The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-04-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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Michigan state constitution was defeat
at the election on Tuesday by 5000 nj
iority.
Four thousand emigrants were start'
west from Castle Garden Tuesday, beil
the accumulation of arrivals since Frid,
of last week.
| The senate of Pennsylvania has passe
a law providing that punishment for mu
der IN the first degree may be death b
the use of electricity.
The pope is about to issue a lett.
sanctioning the creating of Catholi
university at Baltimore. The pope PEI
sists that McGlynn must come to Rom,
Gen. Charles G. Paine the owner {
the yacht Nayfower, has decided to bull
steel centre-board yacht about the siz
of the Mayfower to defend Americas cur
Henry B. Billings, of Idaho territory
has been appointed register of the lam
office at Haley. Idaho territory, instea'
of receiver of the land Office at that place
as originally stated.
Judge Maynard on Wednesday relin
quished his position as second comptrolle
of currency and formally entered upo1
the discharge of his new duties as as
sistant secretary of the treasury.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll was admitted
to practice at the bar in New York state
before the general term Of the supreme
court. When he was asked to be sworn
he refused and was affirmed in place.
The president has appointed Martin v
Montgomery, of Michigan, to be associate
justice of the supreme court OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, to succeed Justice Nc
Arthur, retired. His appointment as COM
Of patents was one of the first
of importance made by President Clcye-
land.
Nineteen families in Altascosa county,
Texas, sufferers from the drouth of last
season, are reported to be on the verge of
The number of persons in
each family shows the total number to be
1C6 persons. These families, it is said,
Tor weeks have been subsisting on cattle
that have died from starvation.
Six thousand carpenters struck in Chi
;ago last Monday for eight hours work
;or day and 35 cents an hour. Ninety
,ut Of three hundred employers acceded
o the demands of the strikers. On the
anne date eleven hundred carpenters went
,ut OH strike in Cincinnati for nine
hours work and $3.50 day and eight
hours on Saturday.
Three persons who were concerned IN
he attempt to assassinate the car by
means of bombs in st. Petersburg on
March 18th, were hanged on Thursday
Twenty more officers in vari-
us branches of the service have been ar
ested in connection With the attempt
made against the life of the car in the
'ark of Gatschina palace
William S. Pierce, associate Judge of
he court Of common pleas, died at his
esidence in Philadelphia on Tuesday af-
ernoon of heart disease, aged 72 years.
udge Pierce was an early and earnest
dvocate of the emancipation of slaves
nd was the counsel of the slaves in near
Z every slave case which occurred after
le fugitive slave act of 1850.
Herr Most, the anarchist, was released
ON the penitentiary on Blackwell's
'land April 1st. On his landing at the
'ot of East sgd street, New York, he was
'eeted by a young woman and number
his sympathizers. A big crowd was
on the river bank and followed
ost and his friends to Second avenue,
here they ensconced themselves in a
,er saloon.
Last Saturday night terrible fight oc-
|rred in Saline county, Texas, between
lpt. Scott and his little company of state
ngers and old Willis Connor and his {
MS. Three of the Connor family and
e of the rangers were killed and Capt.
oft and another of his men badly {
'unded. The Connors brought on the q
hit By firing from ambush upon the
1gers, who were hunting timber thieves.
A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas, =
Us: Col. c. P. Cunningham, agent of
? bureau of animal industry, who re- :;
ntly visited southwest Kansas, New :
exico and Colorado, reports that the
tile on the ranches of New Mexico, In
IN territory and Colorado have come
ough the winter in excellent shape and
tn but slight losses. There will be
tied action among the state, territory
l national sanitary boards to prevent {
ltagious pleuro-pneumonia crossing the Z
ssissippi river. >
4 claim has been presented to the treas
: department for the refunding of mon e
paid on seized property sold as opium, .
wh,ch nrovo1 to ho rofh;ro. h,,< oo+ | "